Ticket-clip.



J. E. STEWART & W. A. RUSSELL.

TICKET CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. 1914.

1 15 1 ,06 1 Patented Aug. 24, 1915.

WMNE@@E@ fimwwwamw gmxw JOHN EDGAR STEWART AND WILLIAM ALEXANDERRUSSELL, OF WINNIPEG,

MANITOBA, CANADA.

TICKET-CLIP.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2d, 1915.

Application filed Mai-ch17, 1914. Serial No. 825,289.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J OHN EDGAR STEW- ART and WILLIAM ALEXANDERRUSSELL, both of the city of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba,Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket--Clips, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ticket clips especially toclips-utilized for holding milk or such like tickets wherein thematerial delivered is in bottles and the object of'the invention is toprovide a clip which can be readily applied on the neck of a bottle andwhen so applied will receive and hold tickets given in exchange for thematerial delivered.

A further object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive anddurable clip for the above purpose.

With the above objects in view the invention consists essentially in asplit spring band and a strip secured to the band and having the endsthereof turned outwardly and curved apart, the parts being arranged andconstructed as hereinafter more particularly described and later pointedout in the appended claim.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device in use. Fig. 2represents a vertical sectional view through the band showing the stripin side elevation.

In the drawinglike characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

1 represents a split spring band designed to be applied on the neck 2 ofa bottle 3.

TA metallic strip 4 is passed over the body of the band and securelyfastened thereto in any suitable mannervsuch as by a rivet 5. The endsof the strip are riveted together as indicated at 6 and turnedoutwardly, the extrenities being flared apart as shown at? an 8.

It will be noticed that the outwardly turned'ends of the strip liehorizontally one above the other and that the lower outwardly turned endportion 8 extends beyond the upper outwardly turned portion 7.

The strip is preferably constructed from spring metal so that tickets 9canbe readily inserted and held between the extremities of the clip. y

We might here remark that in cases where milk or such like material isdelivered in bottles it is customary forthe householder to put thetickets in the bottle or put them under the bottle when the emptybottles are left outside for the milkman.

There is always the possibility of the tickets being lost and in coldercountries a good deal of trouble is given the milkman by the ticketsbeing frozen in the bottle or to any adjoining structure on which theymay have been left. With this invention the householder simply placesthe clip on a returned or empty bottle and leaves it out for the milkmanwith the tickets in the clip.

The milkman has simply to withdraw the tickets, remove the clip from theempty bottle and place it on the full bottle which he leaves. This" canbe done very quickly as the spring band can be easily withdrawn from orapplied on the neck of a bottle and no trouble is experienced inwithdrawing the tickets.

What we claim as our invention is:

A ticket clip for bottles comprising a split spring band receiving theneck of the bottle, a strip riveted to the body of the band andsurrounding a portion of the same, and having the endsthereof turnedoutwardly at right angles and lying horizontally one above the. otherand riveted together and having their extremities flared upwardly anddownwardly respectively and designed to receive between them the ticket,the lower outwardly turned end portion extending beyond the upperoutwardly turned portion, as and for the purpose specified.

Signed at Winnipeg this 28th day of January 1914.

JOHN EDGAR STEWART. WILLIAM ALEXANDER RUSSELL.

In the presence of G. S. RoxBURoH, S. SILVERT.

